ICAPS 2026 Outstanding Paper Awards

The following papers were recognized with awards at ICAPS 2026.

Best Paper Award

Kai Xi, Stephen Gould and Sylvie Thiebaux
Learning Lifted Action Models from Unsupervised Visual Traces

Best Paper Runner-Up Award

Augusto B. Corrêa, Simon Dold and Malte Helmert
Potential Heuristics as Real-Valued Multilinear Polynomials

Best Student Paper Award

Pascal Lauer, Yifan Zhang, Patrik Haslum and Pascal Bercher
I Always Told My Mom That Order Is Overrated: Unordered HTN Planning is in PSPACE and Models Problems Beyond STRIPS

Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award

Lukas Frühwirth, Christoph Einspieler, Nysret Musliu and Felix Winter
GPMS: A Generalized Parallel Machine Scheduling Framework with Rich Temporal and Resource Constraints

Outstanding Program Committee Member Award

Augusto B. Corrêa and Johannes Schmalz

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